• 1984@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    I think it’s arrogance that is the default condition. Specially if you are educated, because now you feel confident your opinions are correct, and others are wrong and must be stupid.

    This is mostly why people don’t get along very well. Everyone thinks they are right and they have this need to fight people who says something differently.

    Massive downvotes with no comments is a sign of this behavior.

    • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
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      1 year ago

      I’m not sure that last sentence tracks, if people need to fight people who disagree, wouldn’t they be leaving comments, vocally disagreeing/verbally attacking the other user or their position? Just downvoting and moving is still “getting along” so to speak.

      • 1984@lemmy.today
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        1 year ago

        Downvoting is the lazy version of that…just press a button if you don’t agree with something. It’s a bit like giving reviews to people based on what you think about what they write.

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          1 year ago

          You call it “lazy,” I call it time management. No one has the time or intellectual bandwidth to respond to all the deeply stupid comments on the Internet, so downvotes give us a quick and easy to register our opinion and move on.

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            1 year ago

            Explains all the memes being popular I guess… Minimum effort :)